We're an independent, student-run newsroom.

The Daily Californian covers the city of Berkeley and the campus in unparalleled detail, all while training the future of the journalism industry.
Consider making a donation to support the coverage that shapes the face of Berkeley.

The bills, co-authored by state Sens. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, and Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, aim to increase safety of structures such as balconies or decks in multifamily residences, such as apartment buildings.Read More…

A partial settlement has been reached between the plaintiffs and some of the defendants in a lawsuit related to a June 2015 balcony collapse at the Library Gardens apartment complex that killed six and injured seven others, according to a press release sent by Rains Lucia Stern, a law firm representing one of the families of a victim killed in the collapse.Read More…

The apartment complex at 2020 Kittredge St., where a balcony collapse killed six people and injured seven in June 2015, has changed its name from Library Gardens to K Street Flats and is undergoing renovations, as first reported by Berkeleyside.Read More…

The beige walls of the Library Gardens apartment complex flickered with reflections of emergency lights, a grim parallel to the red party cups littering the pale gray sidewalk, lying among the rubble. Before anyone could question what had led to the tragedy, paramedics first needed to determine who had even survived it, sifting through the wreckage of a fallen balcony.Read More…

Bereaved families and surviving victims of the June balcony collapse have filed a total of 12 civil lawsuits against the building’s owner and manager as well as the construction firm that built the balcony.Read More…

A review of the major Berkeley summer news

Minimum wage to reach $15 The minimum wage for UC employees who work at least 20 hours per week will increase to $15 in 2017 after increasing to $13 by October and to $14 in 2016. The new policy, announced by UC President Janet Napolitano at a UC Board ofRead More…